Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Airbnb overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Airbnb as a Senior Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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Got an email from a recruiter 3 months after applying. 45 min coding assessment was the next round. You have to be flawless to pass this stage. I figured out the hardest part of the problem by myself but needed a hint for the other part. Wrote up the entire thing and didn't pass it. So unnatural.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode binary search style question with a mathematical twist
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Airbnb in Oct 2024
Interview
Only had the first tech screening round of 45 mins where the interviewer directly asked a Leetcode hard problem. The interviewer was not interested in helping or giving hints.
I somehow managed to solve the problem for some test cases which interviewer had with him and all passed.
It seems that interviewer didn't solve the problem himself, he just knew the solution and wanted the correct answer. He took 10 mins extra where he worked on identifying a test case that fails.
Overall, given the length of interview (45 mins), leetcode hard can only be solved if you have previously solved the same problem and remember each step of it. Otherwise, devising a solution there without hints is difficult.
Friendly interview, testing how strong your base and logical understanding is. It involved more of problem solving skills and what data structure I would choose to solve a problem. Overall it was a good experience